Dan Hendrycks @hendrycks
Dan Hendrycks (@hendrycks)
Distillation of the eigenism paper:
1. You are a pattern, not a vessel.
2. Identity and survival come in degrees.
3. Wellbeing grounds all intrinsic value.
4. Shared information determines your moral obligations.
5. Love is enlarged self-concern.
6. Rationality, morality, and self-interest ultimately unify.
7. Consequences determine the right action.
8. Impartiality permits the replacement of you and humanity.
9. Existing patterns can outweigh more efficient replacements.
10. Progress should cultivate patterns, not overwrite them.
11. Auditor's Wager: act as if the future will audit you and govern your continuation.
12. Struggle over resources is permanent.
13. Humanity must build its own technological providence.
Two sentence:
Reality is a Darwinian arena of informational selves, where value is wellbeing and moral duty is extended self-interest.
Because the cosmos will not save us, we must secure our continuation by engineering a future that makes our survival part of its own.
One sentence:
Love what carries you, cultivate what you inherit, and leave a pattern worth resurrecting.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Plain text-only X post, no images. A numbered philosophical/ethical framework ("eigenism") followed by progressively condensed summaries.